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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Biological pretreatment"”.
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Biomass pretreatment toward efficient hydrolysis for sustainable biofuel applications
… nature of the raw biomass materials to further biological conversion, their structural degradation often requires severe and costly pretreatment processes such as heat, physical and chemical treatments to disturb and fractionate the biomass. Significant research effort has been devoted to …
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Submerged-Membrane Bioreactor for the Treatment of NASA Wastewater
… consumables that add to stowage space and mass. Biological pretreatment systems offer a potential means of improving wastewater treatment by using microorganisms to utilize contaminants as either as source or sink for electrons; processes well understood in terrestrial wastewater treatment …
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Performance and microbial community structure of Midwestern groundwater pretreatment reactors
Biological ammonia oxidation has received considerable industry research recently as water utilities seek to minimize chlorine demand and potential disinfection byproduct formation. Many plants are forced to chlorinate before primary filtration in order to meet disinfection requirements, so a …
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Treatment of dairy wastewater using enzyme pre-treatment coupled with an expanded granular sludge bed reactor
… (FOGs), nitrogen, phosphate, chemical and biological oxygen demand (COD and BOD) are found in the wastewater. This study investigates the treatment of dairy wastewater (DWW) using a biological pretreatment coupled with an anaerobic down-flow expanded granular sludge bed reactor (DEGBR). The …
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Degradation of the Insensitive Munitions Compound 3-Nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one (NTO) via Sequential Reducing-Oxidizing Conditions
… spiked with KMnO4, showing that the reductive biological pretreatment enhances the effectiveness of the oxidant. These results indicate that prior microbial reduction of NTO and DNAN can enhance the effectiveness of ISCO, making it a feasible option for remediating sites contaminated with IMCs. …
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Application of physicochemical and biological pretreatments to enhance volatile fatty acids production via Dark Fermentation from agri-food waste
… it necessitates the application of costly pretreatments to ensure adequate solubilization of the organic matter present in the biomass. Residual biomass is a cheap carbon source with high volume availability and decentralized geographical distribution, but its use requires the optimization …